All Hergé's talents
A couple of weeks ago we talked at the rewind of the Collector Filias of Calouste Gulbenkian and we started October returning to the museum that bears his name in Lisbon, because there has been inaugurated today, and can be visited until January 2022, an exhaustive shows dedicated to GeorgesRemi, the Belgian artist of multiple talents, deep curiosity and better memory we all know as Hergé.
They are displayed in nine sections original drawings, sketches, paintings, documents and works that are not tintin of the creator of Tintin: we can verify how the cartoonist turned to all the means that he could have to carry his compositions where he wanted and how he also remainedaware of the fundamental artistic currents of their time and knew how to be inspired by them for their purposes, from abstract art to minimalism through pop art.Self -taught, their concerns extended to ancient civilizations and to which he called primitive arts, as reflected more evident, in his illustrations and cartoons, his advertising works in the press and even their incursions into the fashion design.
We recognize your comics for some unmistakable stamps: the simple and precise lines, that clear line so typical of the cartoon of Franco-Belgian origin that goes beyond aesthetics and graphic style, because it implies the use of all the elements of the comic (From the frames to the signs through the dialogues) to make the stories for readers more understandable.The characters are delimited with purified and continuous lines, the procedures of the classical narrative are respected without strictly sticking the story to the assembly of vignettes and the intermediate tones are not frequent.However, ellipsis was used to stimulate the imagination of its readers and combined everyday worlds, in which the public could easily identify, and those born to pure inventiveness.
Almost any occasional reader of Remi's comics, and Tintin and his adventures, reminds the opera singer Bianca Castafiore (one of her scarce female characters) and the kind Portuguese merchant Oliveira da Figueira, but only in that comic they meetNothing less than 350 figures and we must remember that even the very apparently secondary can end up acquiring a lot of relevance.
This Lisbon exhibition is ahead of the centenary of the first appearance of the blond of the tango inhiesto (it was in January 1929, when the world approached many precipices) and provides the opportunity to know what were the sketches of that work, the pictorial facetof Hergé in the early sixties, which were its stylistic sources of inspiration, especially following their collaboration in the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (from Durrero to Miró) or some of the pieces that were part of their private collection (theacquired from Lucio Fontana and Andy Warhol and the latter portrayed it).It also collects the sample traces of his brilliant career as an advertising graphic and designer (in the thirties L’Atelier Hergé-Publicité was born) and examines his links with cinema and history, in collaboration with the Hergé Museum of Louvain-La Neuve.
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— prin Thu Jan 28 14:57:37 +0000 2021
There are more than 250 million comics who have sold internationally of this author, but in the beginning, mediated the twentierecognized as true art.
He loved, in equal parts, telling stories and illustrating them and nourishing themselves from silent and black and white cinema, German expressionism or their children.From a double author and designer, he created atmospheres, scenarios and environments, built narratives and intrigues and created characters, maintaining these virtues in continuous evolution throughout his career.
In that trajectory there was some vital year, such as his encounter in the thirties with Tchang Tchongjen and the publication of El Loto Azul, where he confronted Western youth with the oriental deploying narrative ambitions much greater than those of previous adventures those of previous adventures.Also that of 1940: German troops occupy Belgium and disappear Le Vingtième Siècle and, with him, Le Petit Vingtième, the publications he had worked on.Hergé was left without support to publish his drawings, until another newspaper, Brussels Soir, announced his intention to create a weekly supplement for young people.The reappearance of Tintin would take place first in the magazine Le Soir Jeunesse, until July 1941, and later directly in the Soir, in the form of daily strips;It was, however, the press controlled by the occupation forces, which would bring to Remi many headaches after liberation.And more than brokenos: arrested several times to be interrogated, it was acquitted in 1946;In May of that year he achieved his "Certificate of Civism".
Before and after the contest, one of its strengths was, without a doubt, the portrait: its pencil strokes seemed to become magical when concentrating on characters.Let's appreciate them closely or far, their good management of drawing is evident, from sensitivity and technical skill.Look and play, often experience (others pose for him) and the result is masterful.
The (spiritual) relationships between the cartoonists and their characters are usually intimate and last.Somewhat less deep would be, for example, their ties with Quim and Filipe, although these two children experience adventures and inspired situations, in part, in the author's own childhood, and much more diluted are their links with Joana, João and Macaco Simão.In any case, they were part of the infallible recipe of that great curious that was Hergé to catch us.
